callout for ashfurkin, formerlybloodclan, and tough-little-bird
warning for suicide and suicide mentions, abuse, and harassment.
ashfurkin (also known as the-furry-king), formerlybloodclan, and tough-little-bird (formerly rainflowerkin) are members of the wckin community who have continually harassed breezeheather (former urls include bpdbreezepelt, autisticbreezepelt, bumblebreezey, breezepeltkin, and more), a user who is also wckin. it’s suggested that these users are avoided or blocked because of their abusive behavior.
receipts/sources will vary from links to screenshots, as some of the original posts have been deleted and links can’t be provided. everything is under the read more.
ashfurkin
the initial incident started when ashfurkin reblogged vern/breezeheather’s art, which made faer uncomfortable due to being an abuse victim who is uncomfortable with ppl with abusive kintypes interacting with faer. when fae asked ashfurkin to not reblog/like any of their posts, ashfurkin stated that “reblogging this is hurting literally no one and it’s sharing rly good art; if the artist hates me, i should still be allowed to enjoy their art”.
fae continued to ask ashfurkin to not reblog/like faer posts (ashfurkin kept disregarding faer wishes and doing so anyway), at which point ashfurkin started claiming that him reblogging faer art was an accident (despite earlier making it very clear that it wasn’t an accident, he was aware who’s art he was reblogging and simply didn’t want to listen to what vern had to say). ashfurkin essentially victimized himself and attempted to place the blame on vern.
ashfurkin also responded to an anon message sent from a breezepeltkin with breezepelt hate and then proceeded to tag it as #breezepeltkin, which was one of vern’s former urls. when vern told ashfurkin to not tag the hate, ashfurkin responded with “I could start putting a space between Breezepelt and kin. But you could have asked nicely. So I’m going to continue using that tag for Breezepeltkin related things.”
despite vern asking ashfurkin over and over to stop doing the above things, ashfurkin ignored what fae had to say and continued on as he pleased. he also further victimized himself, making vern out to be the bad guy, which led to vern getting hate messages from anons and friends of ashfurkin.
since then ashfurkin has made some posts saying he simply wants the drama to die off, but has yet to truly apologize to vern. as ashfurkin has stated in this post, it’s up to people to decide whether or not to befriend him themselves, but seeing as evidence of his abusive behavior is generally hidden or tucked away, many people don’t see anything but the good side of him.
if you’d like more receipts on ashfurkin and his actions, check out the #ashfurkin tag on vern’s old blog, bpdbreezepelt.
formerlybloodclan
formerlybloodclan, one of ashfurkin’s friends, initially sent vern asks trying to smooth things over between vern and ashfurkin. vern clearly expressed that fae did not want to make up with ashfurkin.
formerlybloodclan laid low for a while until vern began posting about ashfurkin once more. at this point, it began to send vern asks again. i’m having a difficult time remembering, but from what i remember these set of asks weren’t particularly rude…again, formerlybloodclan seemed to lie low and leave vern alone temporarily.
later on, after some conflict occurred between formerlybloodclan and vern, vern made a post regarding keeping formerlybloodclan’s asks from being posted on lgbtqwarriorcats because ashfurkin and formerlybloodclan and their friends had been a reason vern had attempted suicide. formerlybloodclan saw this and was upset by it, and after this it sent vern some incredibly rude, ableist, and aggressive asks (1, 2, 3, 4). it compared vern to tigerstar, a literal murderer, and said things like “being bitter solves nothing and neither does being catty and underhanded“ when discussing abuse (keep in mind vern is an abuse victim, so formerlybloodclan is basically trying to police the way vern deals with faer abuse).
formerlybloodclan has since made this post, similar to ashfurkin’s. it states that it regrets what happened and wishes things would stop, but the post lacks any sort of apology.
if you’d like more receipts on formerlybloodclan, check out the #formerlybloodclan tag on vern’s old blog, bpdbreezepelt.
tough-little-bird
just as a heads up, no links will be added here seeing as tough-little-bird has deleted all posts regarding the drama with vern. screencaps will be provided instead. (also, another sidenote. as tough-little-bird does not have any pronouns listed on their blog, i’m going to be using they/them when referring to them. if anyone knows what pronouns they use then let me know and i will correct the post asap.)
tough-little-bird, kin to an abusive mother (rainflower), started out similarly to ashfurkin. they liked and reblogged some of vern’s posts on faer kin blog, breezepeltkin. as you can see, vern clearly states in the description of this blog that fae does not want people who are kin to abusive characters (fae specifically mentions rainflowerkin) to interact with faer at all. at the start of the blog fae even made a post that was posted in the wckin tag stating that rainflowerkin should not interact with faer.
even if tough-little-bird somehow managed to miss both of these, fae later asked them to stop interacting with faer, at which point tough-little-bird responded with this:
tough-little-bird:
breezeheather i liked your post, if you consider that harassment and triggering then you obviously cant handle being on tumblr)
around this time, tough-little-bird made this post:
tough-little-bird:
*glances at all the whining in the wckin tag about how you ‘cant support abusive characters’*
Wow yep just treat us like we’re not even here yeah thats okay ur great
as there has been recent drama in the wckin community re: people with abusive kintypes, a lot of people who have abusive kintypes have been coming forward to say that it’s unfair to judge them simply based on their kintypes. this completely disregards abuse victims, people who are uncomfortable with abusive kin due to their own kintypes, and mentally ill people who are quick to judge others, are paranoid, etc.
another iffy thing about this post is that it doesn’t say “don’t judge abusive kin” and instead is essentially arguing against the “you can’t support abusive characters” bit. this is likely due to poor wording but is still relevant.
also note that tough-little-bird is admitting to being kin to a character who is abusive, which can clearly make others uncomfortable.
as vern was involved in the abusive kintypes drama, tough-little-bird and vern later got into an argument, shown here:
and here:
throughout the argument, tough-little-bird insults vern, denies that they are harassing faer, and provides us with this:
“If you think liking a post is harassment you need to get a reality check and i love how people support you when you literally brainwash them to make it look like you are the perfect person and that you havent done shit wrong. We aren’t stupid Vern we know you arent that perfect person and maybe its good you hate the wckin community cause plenty of us dont like you :)”
there’s also this, which further proves that tough-little-bird was harassing vern:
rainflowerkin:
…if someone that has harassed your friends and mutuals tells you to stop liking their posts, don’t
It will piss them off and it works better if you ignore them also
breezeheather:You are kin to an abusive mother and it makes me uncomfortable and triggers a lot of awful personal memories. If you’re referring to ashfurkin I would like to fucking remind you that they were harassing ME. Fuck off lol
rainflowerkin:
Sure hun ;)(snipped)
eventually the argument died down, and tough-little-bird proceeded to delete these posts.
they made this post as an apology, but vern has not yet responded, and seeing how tough-little-bird acted, i wouldn’t be surprised if vern doesn’t accept their apology.
if you’d like more receipts on formerlybloodclan, check out the #rainflowerkin tag on vern’s blog, breezeheather.
TLDR:
ashfurkin, formerlybloodclan, and tough-little-bird have harassed and displayed abusive behavior towards breezeheather.
to end this post, i want to mention that each of them has made some sort of apology post which could show that they regret their behavior, but until they stop behaving the way they have and issue a true apology, i think it’s best that they are avoided or treated warily. in the end it’s up to individuals to decide whether or not they want to interact with these three, but they’ll do so knowing exactly who they are getting involved with.
also, no matter what your opinions are, please refrain from sending hate mail to any of the people involved. based on my knowledge, they are all minors. they shouldn’t be let off and automatically forgiven for their behavior because of this, but they should be given time to learn and grow from their mistakes. hopefully in the future this type of behavior will be avoided.